Apple slightly beat Wall Street’s Q3 earnings expectations, shipping five million more iPhones than predicted, but four million fewer iPads than analysts expected. It also spent $16 billion to buy back 36 million AAPL shares.

BTIG analyst Walt Piecyk said Apple’s earnings guidance for Q4 2013 suggest only one thing: New hardware in September, probably new iPhones.

Twitter aggressively pitched advertisers on tweet-discussions about television programs, but Facebook actually has five times as much TV talk.

In a letter filed with the SEC, Michael Dell wrote to shareholders, regarding his $24.6 billion leveraged buyout proposal: “The decision is now yours. I am at peace either way and I will honor your decision.”

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